After threatening to strike on June 8, the union’s main focus was unity and solidarity heading to the bargaining table. It worked, and they secured wage hikes of up to 33 percent and ended a two-tier wage system.
“This is a revolutionary step forward for Pennsylvania that closes off a major threat to American self-government: foreign-influenced corporate political spending,” said MarchOnHarrisburg Executive Director Rabbi Michael Pollack.
“We can’t forget that democracy is not a spectator sport – it’s the difference between maintaining progress in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and losing them,” said Fairness Pennsylvania State Director Sarah Hammond.
The PAC just endorsed 16 Pennsylvania candidates running for the state Senate and House.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
The updated guide from the Brennan Center and All Voting is Local also notes existing laws prevent election deniers from disrupting elections by harassing, intimidating, or improperly influencing voters.
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”
In Bucks County, around 71,000 workers would benefit from the wage hike, which accounts for 21 percent of the workforce.
Women’s Law Project Senior Staff Attorney Christine Castro says this provides “an opportunity to finally slam the door shut on the Medicaid ban” and “really safeguard the reproductive freedoms and autonomy rights of Pennsylvanians.”
There are 480 higher education leaders from across the country who have signed a letter opposing “undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work” on their campuses.
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
The Bucks County Sheriff’s office has an application pending to participate in ICE’s 287(g) “task force model”, which essentially makes local law enforcement officers de facto ICE agents.
There were hundreds of rallies and protests against the Trump Administration across the country Saturday.
The goal of the proposed legislation is to protect women who receive abortions and the doctors and nurses who provide this reproductive health care.
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